“The family exists for many reasons, but its most basic function may be to draw together after a member dies.”

“Our most basic instinct is not for survival but for family. Most of us would give our own life for the survival of a family member, yet we lead our daily life too often as if we take our family for granted.”

“I'm not sure if I know any 'functional' families, if functional means a family without difficult times and members who don't have a full range of problems.”

“The most merciful thing that a large family does to one of its infant members is to kill it." Margaret Sanger”

“But to die as lovers may - to die together, so that they may live together.”

“The function of education, therefore, is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. But education which stops with efficiency may prove the greatest menace to society. The most dangerous criminal may be the man gifted with reason, but with no morals.”